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Using VoiceThread to Assess and Provide Feedback in a Pronunciation Course

July 10, 2024
VoiceThread, a cloud-based platform, is used to assess and provide feedback in an online asynchronous pronunciation course for adult English Language Learners (ELLs). As an interactive collaboration tool, VoiceThread allows for an online classroom where students and instructors can see and hear each other via recordings.  Using VoiceThread in this online asynchronous pronunciation class students…

Create a Case Method Group Activity to Engage Students in Critical Thinking

September 30, 2019
The case method group activity is an instructional design strategy that involves faculty members providing one or more case studies to which groups of students respond. The case(s) could be a real-life case or simulation. It could be description of key concept(s) applied, a story or scenario, an actual case study, a problem or mystery,…

Build an ePortfolio to Showcase Mastery of 21st Century Skills

August 12, 2019
Today’s employers expect their potential workers to be conversant in the 4Cs of 21st Century Skills: communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking identified through the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (NEA, 2012). Spires (2012) states that, “digital literacy practices involve the ability to locate and consume, create, and communicate digital content, while simultaneously employing a…

Preparing Students to Facilitate a Webinar

October 11, 2018
Description Today’s technological environment requires practical skills in online competencies; one of these skills is webinar facilitation. Facilitation is a useful skill to support group in meeting an objective, making a decision, or collaborating more effectively. Facilitation is also the teaching strategy that can be selected for assignments in order to: (1) model for students…

Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Student Choice using Digital Storytelling

November 13, 2017
When an assignment offers students an opportunity to demonstrate learning through creativity, peer and small group collaboration, integration of technology of choice, and learning by sharing, aligning with student learning outcomes becomes simple. Digital storytelling as a strategy can provide evidence of the integration of complex to simple concepts learned within the discipline, while requiring…

Engage Adult Learners with Course-Long Role Play

April 6, 2015
Description Role playing in the context of educational simulations has been cited as a particularly engaging strategy for online courses (Ausburn, 2004; Bender, 2005; Cornelius, Gordon, & Ackland, 2011; Lytle, Lytle, & Brophy, 2006; Serby, 2011). Such role playing when conducted for an extended time period (e.g., for the duration of an academic term) in…